VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Games for Health Journal Founded

Update: 2012-01-30

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This time we will be talking with the editor of a new journal devoted to games for health, Bill Ferguson. Premiering in February of 2012, Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications, will offer original peer-reviewed research articles, as well as industry insights and developments. Additionally, interviews and commentary on the games for health initiative will be included in its pages. While there are by now several organizations, conferences and journals focused upon game development and game effects, this is the first journal with a specific mission to examine how games can be used for health related purposes. This is something that has come up before on this show in several interviews through the Games for Health Conference, but a journal gives an area an authenticity and respectability that simply meeting and exchanging ideas does not allow. Don’t get me wrong meetings are important and in this case they were part of the development process, but once a major professional journal publisher decides to go forward with a journal this targets a new era in such research and application.

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Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Racial representation and gaming

2013-04-1523:23

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Violence and Video Game Play Revisited

2013-03-1120:48

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Family Life and Video Game Play

2013-02-1121:20

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Problem Video Game Play and Genre

2013-01-1338:07

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video Games Let You Be All You Can Be

2012-12-1730:24

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – What is a gamer identity or gamer culture?

2012-11-1927:19

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video game technology supporting the elderly

2012-10-1530:20

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Women in Gaming

2012-09-1628:46

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Culture-jamming activists in video games

2012-08-1326:01

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – A senior artists view of computers

2012-07-1620:10

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Transitioning between real and virtual

2012-06-1826:16

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Consciousness and the Avatar

2012-05-2826:58

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Visual Arts and Gaming

2012-04-1625:25

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Music and Video Games

2012-04-0225:15

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Self-discovery with Mindbloom

2012-03-1924:38

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Casual Games for Improved Thinking in the Elderly

2012-03-0524:46

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Hello Avatar Author Interviewed

2012-02-1328:11

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Games for Health Journal Founded

2012-01-3000:01

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Attention, Memory and Information Processing Advantages to Gaming

2012-01-1623:03

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Military and Gaming

2012-01-0226:46

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VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Games for Health Journal Founded